Please join us in person at the NCA General Meeting this Wednesday, April 10th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

NCA members please bring in your best appetizer to share with the group! Also bring a work of art with you for your chance to be chosen by your fellow Members as Artist of the Month!! Our new Raffle Chair, Vanessa Bondon, is collecting new or gently used art supplies for our monthly meeting raffle. Feel free to bring to the meeting or coordinate drop off.

For our April meeting we have artist and NCA extraordinaire Anne Bradley providing a demonstrating of her acrylic on canvas method, with display and lecture on other aspects of her art such as watercolor.
 

Who: Anne Bradley, acrylic on canvas demonstration. 

What: General Meeting

When: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Where: Sacramento Fine Arts Center  5330-B Gibbons Dr., Carmichael, CA 95608

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More about Anne Bradley

Anne Bradley: Artist at the Forge
If you had window-shopped through Old Folsom, California between 1971 and
1994, you might have wandered into a row of little shops at 705 Sutter
Street. Among the various boutiques there, you would have found a
spattering of artists’ studios. And among them, you would have found the
Back Street Gallery where Anne Bradley and her mother painted, created and
delighted visitors with their artwork.

Anne’s mother was an oil landscape painter and Anne, influenced by her
mother’s work went on, in her twenties, to take art lessons from their
neighbor, Eugene Garin. Garin, a Russian American oil painter, was
renowned for his seascapes and glazing techniques. He was represented in
Monterey and Carmel galleries and collectors around the world have
acquired his work.

Anne went on to work in watercolor and acrylic. Eventually, she left
realism behind to explore collage and hone her signature style,
incorporating metalworking, as well as creating metal sculptures.

She first started using metals when she developed an interest in them and
wanted to add some metal to a painting.

She conferred with her brother who owns an auto body shop and works
extensively in metal. He suggested that she take metal shop classes at
Sierra College.

Anne went on to take 13 semesters of metal classes, both in metal shop and
in jewelry. She studied arc welding, casting aluminum, and preparing to
cast bronze, and became familiar with all kinds of equipment, such as
benders, grinders and choppers.

Anne and her good friend Sue Anne Foster enrolled in many of the classes
together. And she found many other artist-friends in the classes, such as
Maureen Gilli, Marge Sahs, Patty Short, Patricia Sokolowski and Joanne
Burkett.

While Anne was born in Hazard, Kentucky, her family moved to San Francisco
when she was young, and then, on to Sacramento. She now lives in
Carmichael, CA, with her daughter, Lisa Bradley.

Anne has studied at both American River and Sierra Colleges. She has
worked extensively with model home decorators and shown her artwork in
galleries and received many awards.

She was the first woman to receive the Don Herberholz Award in 2007 for
her cast aluminum sculpture.

She received Best in Show Awards, both in the KVIE Art Auction and in the
2015 Oakwilde Sculpture Park Open Competition in Valley Springs, CA, for
her sculpture, “Unknown DNA”.

Anne describes this piece as an electroformed artwork with an enamel base.
Electroforming is a process where layers of copper are  formed around the
surface of an object. In “Unknown DNA”, Anne used 16 organic objects, such
as pieces of a bee hive, a pine cone,  shells and flowers.

Anne said, “I leave it (the object) in so long, it burns the original
(object) out and it leaves a hollow, copper form by itself.”

Anne takes care titling her artwork, with names like, “Long Tails”,
“Pandemonium”, and TCells”. She emphasizes that the titles express her
intent with the piece.

“An objective of mine is to inspire people to take another look at
familiar objects around them and see them in a different light,” Anne
says.

And in so doing, you then see life around you in a different light.